" A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella."James Joyce, Ulysses Radical and uncompromising, Umbrella is a tour de force from one of England’s most acclaimed contemporary writers, and Self’s most ambitious novel to date. Moving between Edwardian London and a suburban mental hospital... (learn more about this book)
Will Self and Ralph Steadman join forces once again in a further post-millennial meditation on the vexed relationship of psyche and place in a globalised world; Psycho Too brings together a second helping of their very best words and pictures from 'Psychogeography', the columns they contributed... (learn more about this book)
One of contemporary fiction’s most “wickedly brilliant…endlessly talented” ( Publishers Weekly) satirists delivers a dystopian novel skewering global politics and Big Brother-style government post-9/11. When Tom Brodzinksi tries to give up smoking, he inadvertently sets off a chain of events... (learn more about this book)
British satirist Will Self spins four interconnected stories into a brilliantly insightful commentary on human foibles and resilience. Will Self’s remarkable new stories center on the disease and decay that target the largest of human organs: the liver. Set in locales as toxic as a London... (learn more about this book)
Provocateurs Will Self and Ralph Steadman join forces in this post millennial meditation on the vexed relationship between psyche and place in a globalised world, bringing together for the first time the very best of their "Psychogeography" columns for the "Independent". The introduction,... (learn more about this book)
Often characterized as the bad boy of English literature, Will Self has earned his reputation through a body of innovative, experimental and - to some - disturbing work.The two stories collected in Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo (previously published in the collection Tough, Tough Toys for... (learn more about this book)
Henry Wotton, gay, drug addicted, and husband of Batface, the irrefutably aristocratic daughter of the Duke of This or That, is at the center of a clique dedicated to dissolution. His friend Baz Hallward, an artist, has discovered a young man who is the very epitome of male beauty - Dorian Gray.... (learn more about this book)
"Feeding Frenzy", Will Self's third collection of journalism and selected writings takes us through the turbulent years 1995-2000. During this period Self surfed the great wave of olive oil which nearly swept British metropolitan culture away, and produced a series of restaurant reviews for "The... (learn more about this book)
Will Self has one of literature's most astonishing imaginations, and in How the Dead Live his talent has come to full flower. Lily Bloom is an angry, aging American transplanted to England, now losing her battle with cancer. Attended by nurses and her two daughters -- lumpy Charlotte, a dour,... (learn more about this book)